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Human rights activist Victor Toro faces deportation hearing in New York

Recovered from FSRN’s earlier site via the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. The audio here is FSRN’s own production recording. Originally published August 26, 2009.

The final deportation hearing for former political prisoner and human rights organizer, Victor Toro, began today in New York City. Toro, a Chilean national and undocumented worker, was arrested in Rochester, New York on July 6, 2007 and charged with being in the country illegally.  Jaisal Noor, with the Community News Production Institute, has the story from New York.